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Over the last several years bacon has leapt from the meat aisle to nearly every segment of the food and beverage market. There’s bacon-infused Bakon vodka (not to be confused with Bacon flavored vodka), bacon candy, and even (kosher!) Bacon Salt. Friar Bacon Bottle Conditioned Smoked Bock beer, brewed by Cincinnati’s Listermann Brewing Co., looks to fall into the same category as the latter, as Friar Bacon merely emulates bacon’s flavor without containing any actual bacon. Like Bacon Salt, Friar Bacon certainly capitalizes on bacon imagery. Note the four slices of porcine goodness framing the label, and the punny name that seems as much an ode to a bacon fryer as it is to playwright Robert Greene’s magi-comic sixteenth-century friar. Beer Advocate gives Friar Bacon a grade of “B” and notes it does contain a certain mysterious element of smoked meat flavor. Bacon beers are slowly moving from the concept stage to the product stage. The Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen Smokebeer at Piece Brewery and Pizzeria in Chicago, according to a friend, contains no bacon but “has a distinct bacon aroma, a subtle (not overwhelming) bacon flavor while drinking, and an unmistakable (but not at all unpleasant) pork fat aftertaste.” And still another brewer is planning to...

This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50 60. Today we add Elder flower wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Cantaloupe wine
4. Dandelion wine
5. Elder flower wine. Made by Wild Wines, of Jacksonville, Oregon.
6. Grape wine
7. Jasmine fruit wine
8. Kiwi wine
9. Linden flower wine
10. Lychee wine
11. Mangosteen wine
12. Marionberry wine
13. Onion wine
14. Pomegranate wine
15. Pear wine
16. Pepper wine
17. Pineapple wine
18. Rhubarb wine
19. Tomato wine
20. Watermelon wine

This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Cantaloupe wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Cantaloupe wine. Made by Lone Maple Farm, of Binghamton, New York.
4. Dandelion wine
5. Grape wine
6. Kiwi wine
7. Linden flower wine
8. Lychee wine
9. Mangosteen wine
10. Marionberry wine
11. Onion wine
12. Pomegranate wine
13. Pear wine
14. Pepper wine
15. Pineapple wine
16. Rhubarb wine
17. Tomato wine
18. Watermelon wine